Real Time Statistics?

pctank · Mar 21st, 2008, 20:23

Is there a free(or fairly cheap) statistics service, like Google Analytics that shows you in real time viewers who came to your site, etc.? Google currently updates once every several hours.

saltedm8 · Mar 22nd, 2008, 02:47

you should be able to get this info within your control panel of your web host, if not then just google 'web statistics' or something like that, there are probably hundreds supplying that sort of service

pctank · Mar 22nd, 2008, 07:04

Thanks Saltedm8

pawank · Mar 24th, 2008, 06:39

This is also a good and free stat service provider, try it - http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

pctank · Mar 24th, 2008, 07:37

I will give google ago and try to install awstats which my hosting supply

welshstew · Mar 27th, 2008, 07:20

it’s not free, but foglight (http://www.quest.com/foglight/) is probably one of the best monitoring tools out there at the moment. Unlike Google Analytics or Webtrends, it provides real time data, as it sniffs the network traffic rather than analysing log files.

spinal007 · Mar 27th, 2008, 08:59

as the guys mentioned above the only way to get live stats is to analyse your raw log files.
but why would you want this anyway? (if you don't mind me asking)

pctank · Mar 27th, 2008, 10:14

Just to find out where my traffic is coming from INSTANTLY!!!!

And you guys knows almost everything so i wasn't scared to ask! (Its free)

spinal007 · Mar 27th, 2008, 12:24

sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. my question was, why do you need to know instantly? just curious?

Therefore · Mar 31st, 2008, 11:47

I think that the best option for you would be logs based statistics. Only in this case you can understand that it would be trough. BTW web hosting companies do offer such opportunity (awstats )

4waydesigners · Apr 9th, 2008, 07:06

you can check in control panel

snowbird · Apr 21st, 2008, 04:03

awstats gives real time statistics, but some hosts have it set to only update once a day. This can be overrided by changing the .conf file. "Allow browser update" needs to be set to 1. Also permisions on the file need to be changed to 444 after uploading.

I think the above is correct, since its been a while since I did it.